Experience Human Development -
Chapter 17
Ageism - ANSPrejudice or discrimination against someone (most typically an older person)
based totally on age
Primary ageing - ANSGradual, inevitable system of the bodily deterioration at some stage in
the lifespan
Secondary getting older - ANSAging system that result from disease and bodily abuse and
disuse and are regularly preventable
Activities of day by day residing - ANSEssential sports that help survival, consisting of
consuming, dressing, bathing, and getting across the house.
Functional age - ANSMeasure of a person's potential to characteristic efficaciously in his or
her bodily and social environment in assessment with others of the equal chronological age.
Gerontology - ANSStudy of the age and the technique of getting old
Geriatrics - ANSBranch of drugs worried with strategies of growing old and clinical conditions
related to age
Life expectancy - ANSAge to which a person specifically cohort is statistically probably to
stay (given his or her present day age and standing), on the idea of common toughness of a
populace
Longevity - ANSLength of character's life
Life span - ANSThe longest period that members of a species can life
Senescence - ANSPeriod of the lifestyles span marked through declines in physical
functioning normally related to growing old; starts offevolved at unique a while for one of a
kind humans.
Genetic-programmed theories - ANSTheories that specify biological growing old as as a
result of a genetically decided developmental timetable.
Variable-price theories - ANSTheories that specify organic aging due to approaches that
modify from individual to individual and are motivated via each the inner and external
environment, on occasion known as error theories
Chapter 17
Ageism - ANSPrejudice or discrimination against someone (most typically an older person)
based totally on age
Primary ageing - ANSGradual, inevitable system of the bodily deterioration at some stage in
the lifespan
Secondary getting older - ANSAging system that result from disease and bodily abuse and
disuse and are regularly preventable
Activities of day by day residing - ANSEssential sports that help survival, consisting of
consuming, dressing, bathing, and getting across the house.
Functional age - ANSMeasure of a person's potential to characteristic efficaciously in his or
her bodily and social environment in assessment with others of the equal chronological age.
Gerontology - ANSStudy of the age and the technique of getting old
Geriatrics - ANSBranch of drugs worried with strategies of growing old and clinical conditions
related to age
Life expectancy - ANSAge to which a person specifically cohort is statistically probably to
stay (given his or her present day age and standing), on the idea of common toughness of a
populace
Longevity - ANSLength of character's life
Life span - ANSThe longest period that members of a species can life
Senescence - ANSPeriod of the lifestyles span marked through declines in physical
functioning normally related to growing old; starts offevolved at unique a while for one of a
kind humans.
Genetic-programmed theories - ANSTheories that specify biological growing old as as a
result of a genetically decided developmental timetable.
Variable-price theories - ANSTheories that specify organic aging due to approaches that
modify from individual to individual and are motivated via each the inner and external
environment, on occasion known as error theories
